Thando Mgqolozana (born 27 August 1983, in

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) is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the Golden Key International Honour for Scholastic Achievement, and one of the ''

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''’s Top 200 Young South Africans of 2010. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and is now based at the

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. Mgqolozana is the author of ''Hear Me Alone'' (2011), ''A Man Who Is Not a Man'' (2009), a novel that enjoyed critical success and was long-listed for the

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, and ''Unimportance'' (2014). Mgqolozana is the co-writer of ''Inxeba'' (''The Wound'') (2017), an award-winning film, inspired by his novel, ''A Man Who Is Not A Man'', about the Xhosa traditional initiation into manhood. In 2021, his ex-wife accused him of intimate partner abuse.

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External links

Thando Mgqolozana on Books LIVE

http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/tow-past-participants/79-tow-2015/931-thando-mgqolozana-sou
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mgqolozana, Thando South African male novelists 1983 births Living people 21st-century South African male writers 21st-century South African novelists